National Conceptualisations of the Body Politic: Cultural Experience and Political Imagination

by Andreas Musolff

Book Overview

This book presents the results of a large-scale experiment into interpretations of the metaphor "the Nation as a Body" among 1,800+ respondents from 30 linguistic and cultural backgrounds. In this first account of an empirical study of cross-cultural global metaphor interpretation of that scale, Musolff confirms that the meanings of metaphors are complex, culturally mediated and may differ for senders and recipients. The book provides a historical...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9811587426
• ISBN13: 9789811587429
• Release Date: November 2021
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 207 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"